Shaindy Plotzker promised Hashem that if He’d return her voice, she’d use it to inspire Jewish women
Ask anyone who’s heard singer and composer Shaindy Plotzker perform, and they’ll agree it’s ironic that doctors predicted that this 25-year-old woman who captivates and inspires audiences across the country would be born hearing impaired.
Shaindy’s mother’s pregnancy took a dangerous turn when she contracted antibiotic-resistant pyelonephritis with MRSA. And while fortunately there was a treatment protocol, it had a few potential side effects, among them fetal hearing loss.
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Her mother was no stranger to challenge. Just 20 years old, she already had a toddler with special needs. Now facing the prospect of a hearing-impaired child, she cried through the remainder of the pregnancy.
It turned out to be an unfounded worry. When Shaindy was born, she passed her neonatal hearing tests. She did experience slight hearing loss (which has since resolved), but isn’t sure whether it’s congenital (due to the fluid she always had in her ears as a child) or caused by the loud music she blasted as a teen. “It’s probably a combination,” she muses.
She does have hyperacusis, a sensitivity to sound and frequencies, but it manifests only when she’s in professional music studios and has to ask the staff to turn up the volume on her headphones. “They think it’s hilarious,” says Shaindy with her tinkling laugh. “They keep on asking if I can hear myself, and I keep on saying, ‘Can you turn it a little louder? A little more?’ ”
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In one studio Shaindy frequents, the staff doesn’t need to be reminded to use an especially loud setting for her; they have a “Shaindy setting.” But when a well-known singer once came into the studio after her, and the staff forgot to lower the volume, well, boy, did he get a blasting when he put on his headphones!
Shaindy’s story of being threatened by hearing loss taught her that Hashem always has the final word. And that’s a theme running through the backstory behind her almost overnight rise to fame in the burgeoning industry of frum, female performers.
“I started doing this professionally two and a half years ago, and it somehow took off from there,” Shaindy says. “I never imagined, in my wildest dreams, that it would become what it became.”
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